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travel or the delights of home, if we have not time for their enjoyment? Time is often said to be money,

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in social and family intercourse, is well and wisely spent. Games not only keep the body in health, but give a command over th

make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting: and the advantage of leisu

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throws away that which is invaluable in respect of its present use, and irre

nses? How can we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

dvice to his son with reference to time. "Every moment you now lose, is so much character and advantage lost; as,

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Hilliard, "a satirical poem, in which the Devil is represented as fishing for men, and adapting his bait to the tas

one in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the w

glory, was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" It would indeed be a mistake to suppose that

ry minute are a new record against us in heaven. Sure if we thought thus, we should dismiss them with better reports, and not suffer them to fly away empty, or laden with dangerou

we that waste it, and wasted time is worse than no time at all; "I wast

hoice of his actions; lest the first engage him in vanity and loss, and the latter, by being cr

e must deduct the time required for sleep, for meals, for dressing and undressi

uct from them the hours I have lived for other people, and

should be deducted, but rather those which benefit neither one

may lose them, we can never get them back. It is wonderful, indeed, how much innocent happiness we thoughtlessly throw away.

whole income was ?100 a year, part of which, moreover, he spent in making a small museum. I asked him whether he contemplated accepting any post or office, but he s

d time to see the British Museum thoroughly. Yet consider what it contains; or rather, what does it not contain? The most gigantic of living and extinct animals; the marvellous monsters of geological ages; the most beautiful birds, shells, and minerals; precious stones and fragments from other worlds; the most interesting antiquities; curious and fantastic specimens illustra

lily, its depth of color to the violet, its fragrance to the rose; when you do not know in what consists the venom of the adder, any more than you can imitate the glad movements of the dove. What! dull, when earth, air, and water are all alike mysteries to you, and when as you stretch out your hand you

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